Not sure where else to put this so have created a thread where anyone can rail against the injustices of the world.
My daughter starts university today (yeah I know it's early but it is what it is). After much toing and froing she chose to apply to go to the technical university in Budapest. (This one in case you're interested https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buda...cs?wprov=sfla1).
She got accepted a couple of months ago and proceeded to fill in the application for a place in the student dorms/halls of residence). Last Wednesday we got the news that she didn't get a place. Now just to be clear here : (1) She heard that she hadn't got a place 5 days before term started; (2) She's a foreign student for fucks sake (yes she speaks the language, but she's a long way from home moving to a big city in a foreign country) ; (3)they initially lied to us when giving their reasons for not giving her a place - saying she hadn't applied in time, which wasn't true and which they retracted when we called to dispute this; and (4) what the fucking fuck?
We have managed to come up with a solution at least for the short term (she'll stay with a high school classmate of my wife's who has the room, is a single mother and is grateful for the cash). But she's not going to have the community / social connections that she really needs to settle in and find herself. Plus I'm fucking steaming. Personally my inclination is to withdraw, take a gap year and firebomb the rector's office. Luckily not everyone in my family shares my sense of outraged indignation and anger (because people in Eastern Europe don't ever complain in case it makes things worse or you end up on the radar of the secret police. Old habits die hard.)
Anyway, just wanted to get that off my chest. Cunts. (I am not even there to help. I'll fly to Budapest tomorrow and then will tussle with my other half as to whether I should march into the office for student services (if there is one, perhaps this is the issue) and launch an angry official complaint. She'll try and persuade me not to.
My daughter starts university today (yeah I know it's early but it is what it is). After much toing and froing she chose to apply to go to the technical university in Budapest. (This one in case you're interested https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buda...cs?wprov=sfla1).
She got accepted a couple of months ago and proceeded to fill in the application for a place in the student dorms/halls of residence). Last Wednesday we got the news that she didn't get a place. Now just to be clear here : (1) She heard that she hadn't got a place 5 days before term started; (2) She's a foreign student for fucks sake (yes she speaks the language, but she's a long way from home moving to a big city in a foreign country) ; (3)they initially lied to us when giving their reasons for not giving her a place - saying she hadn't applied in time, which wasn't true and which they retracted when we called to dispute this; and (4) what the fucking fuck?
We have managed to come up with a solution at least for the short term (she'll stay with a high school classmate of my wife's who has the room, is a single mother and is grateful for the cash). But she's not going to have the community / social connections that she really needs to settle in and find herself. Plus I'm fucking steaming. Personally my inclination is to withdraw, take a gap year and firebomb the rector's office. Luckily not everyone in my family shares my sense of outraged indignation and anger (because people in Eastern Europe don't ever complain in case it makes things worse or you end up on the radar of the secret police. Old habits die hard.)
Anyway, just wanted to get that off my chest. Cunts. (I am not even there to help. I'll fly to Budapest tomorrow and then will tussle with my other half as to whether I should march into the office for student services (if there is one, perhaps this is the issue) and launch an angry official complaint. She'll try and persuade me not to.
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